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This widely praised publication of the work of a key figure in the
history of opera provides the most reliable version of the score
for each opera, appending a translation of the libretto. La Statira
is the ninth opera available in the edition, which is under the
general editorship of Donald Jay Grout. La Statira was first
performed in Rome in January 1690, to inaugurate the carnival
season for that year. The opera, with libretto by Cardinal
Ottoboni, recounts the story of Alexander the Great's defeat of
Darius, King of Persia, and his love for Statira, daughter of
Darius. Alexander's bravery and magnanimity were favorite subjects
of operatic librettists in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. In his introduction William Holmes sketches the opera's
history and discusses performance questions. William C. Holmes is
Professor of Music, University of California, Irvine. Operas
already available: , i>Eraclea, Marco Attilio Regolo, Griselda,
The Faithful Princess, Massimo Puppieno, La Caduta de Decemviri,
Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, and Tigrane.
William C. Holmes provides a rare look behind the scenes into the
world of early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Based on a rich
store of newly recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of
Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illuminates the
complexities of staging opera in the 1720s and '30s: the role of
the impresario in planning an operatic season, financial and
artistic difficulties, the importance of patronage, the power of
individual singers and composers, considerations of set design, and
the practice of altering librettos.
A member of an illustrious Florentine family, Albizzi (1664-1745)
served as one of the principal impresarios of the Pergola,
Florence's earliest and greatest opera theater. He also carried on
an active correspondence with impresarios in other cities, freely
giving his advice on various economic and artistic concerns. Holmes
uses the Albizzi family archives--the most abundant and varied
material yet available about an eighteenth-century impresario and
his theater--to deepen our knowledge of an extraordinary but little
understood period in Italian opera.
This book will appeal to anyone curious about operatic history.
William C. Holmes provides a rare look behind the scenes into the
world of early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Based on a rich
store of newly recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of
Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illuminates the
complexities of staging opera in the 1720s and '30s: the role of
the impresario in planning an operatic season, financial and
artistic difficulties, the importance of patronage, the power of
individual singers and composers, considerations of set design, and
the practice of altering librettos.
A member of an illustrious Florentine family, Albizzi (1664-1745)
served as one of the principal impresarios of the Pergola,
Florence's earliest and greatest opera theater. He also carried on
an active correspondence with impresarios in other cities, freely
giving his advice on various economic and artistic concerns. Holmes
uses the Albizzi family archives--the most abundant and varied
material yet available about an eighteenth-century impresario and
his theater--to deepen our knowledge of an extraordinary but little
understood period in Italian opera.
This book will appeal to anyone curious about operatic history.
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